This Week On The SingStore (28 January 2010)

This week, why not add some black eyeliner and hairspray to the mix and rock out to ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by The Cure or just paint a white stripe across your face instead and feel like ‘Prince Charming’ (just like Adam & The Ants)?

Also available for download, some more songs by Snow Patrol including the gorgeous ‘Set The Fire To The Third Bar’ with Martha Wainwright (duet anyone???), ‘Romeo’ by Basement Jaxx plus things from Avril Lavigne, No Doubt, The Script, Rainbow and Mr. Hudson feat. Kanye West.

There’s quite a few songs for all you Portuguese singers including Humanos with ‘Muda De Vida’ plus German and Italian tracks from the likes of Echt and Tiziano Ferro.

Thanks for the update again. Will be picking up Avril Lavigne, No Doubt and… The Veronicas?? I thought they were under Warner Music Group??

My super-cool Australian artist recommendation for the week is Vanessa Amorosi. Her biggest hit over in Europe was “Absolutely Everybody” in 1999. Recent hits in Australia include “Perfect” and “This Is Who I Am”. She also did a fantastic duet with Hoobastank called “The Letter” which would be so awesome as a duet on SingStar! 😀

Also, you asked me to give you a reminder about the Delta Goodrem song. 🙂

i don’t think it’s the worse, at all! i’ll be buying at least 7 songs, and that’s like a record for me… but!, i’m portuguese and there’s been a lot of portuguese songs around here! thank you very much!

Snow Patrol – Run – on its own? Pleeeeeeeeeeease? I loved singing that on my friend’s old PS2 game and have been waiting ages for it to come on the store. I can’t be doing with Leona and don’t really like the band enough to buy the pack.

Hmmm, is there any chance of getting songpacks added to the store as singles as the same point in time the song packs are.
Not to be a “Negative Ned” or anything but lately it seems a good portion of every update is song packs as singles.

Update caters widely this week actually which is a good thing! Little to my personal tastes: Could do with more bouncy pop really 😀

Oh and gotta add this:

“Singstar: Glee” Can we have it? Please please please! Seems to be a fair few of people wanting this so doesn’t hurt to try and get it to the licensing departments attention 😀
And before the “It’s hard to license songs with videos from TV and movies” crops up, do one of those picture 3D motion thingy’s you’ve done with other videos like some Motown ones, Cher, Build me up Buttercup etc :p
(See I’ve gave it thought for ya! lol)

Hmmm, I can see it being awkward for some of the songs which aren’t on Sony’s Label’s or Spring off label’s.

The music from Glee is signed to Columbia records, but I suppose the issue would be the covers which aren’t apart of one of Sony’s labels? (Since Columbia is part of the Sony Music corp)

Although I know you likely can’t answer that since all the licensing info can’t be divulged, shame cuz I’d love to sit here even if it takes me hours upon hours to figure out a way for this to happen lol.

Yes…I’m that dedicated to the “Singstar: Glee” cause, and have too much free time haha

Hello Nina!
Thanks for the Update.
I have a few questions hope you can ask.
First, why there’s no longer singstar update on the US blog?
and the other question is:
There’s a possibility that we can have another Travis song? Why does it always rain on me? or maybe side? ‘Cause i was looking something. Lips already have “why does it always rain on me?” But that is a song published by Sony, Indeed Travis albums are published by sony. So, why the competition have why does it always rain on me? and the Sony console don’t?
Thanks Nina!

I know zero of these songs too. I think it’s just a bad week for me. Still, I’m not complaining, Ihave spent over a thousand NZ dollars on Singstar downloads now and every week without something I want saves me from shelling out for any more. So, I’m hoping they have nothing to tempt me with for the next couple of updates, lol.

Is the game capable of restricting single songs based on the parental control settings on the console? (and uploaded videos of that song). If not is this feature at all possible to add in a future patch? There are a lot of songs that would probably eneed a higher rating than the game itself, but that a lot of the grown up customers would like. One example is a favorite with of mine; Rage against the machine – Killing in the name. A non cencored version of that would be awsome.

Firstly Nina
THANK YOU!!!
The Script is my fav band and I have been waiting for the Man Who Can’t Be Moved for ages to come out on the Singstore!
Thank you again!
by the way, I see Pixie Lott (Mama Do)on the Singstore which is brilliant, however is there any chance of seeing her other number 1 hit, Boys and Girls? I know a bit more people than a fair few who would give an arm and a leg for this song to be available on the Singstore!

A pretty small update (well not that small, but we were spoiled in the holiday updates), but there are some decent songs there. No immedate purchases this time for me, but there are a number of songs that I expect I’ll eventually get 🙂

SUEDE! METAL MICKEY! A fantastic 90s [pre?] Brit-pop tune. My friends will be ecstatic to hear this! I will also be getting The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry.

Nina, I made a suggestion for a “player pool” recently, and I thought I’d mention it again in case you missed it – basically it is frustrating having to come all the way out to the main menu to change players. My suggestion is to initially pick a “pool” of players that can be swapped in and out from the carousel. See, otherwise when playing SingStar with non-gamers (and plenty want to) I have to host it all night long, and if I don’t, people play as the wrong player, high-scores go under wrong names, and it’s frustrating as I don’t get to enjoy the parties as much as I’d like because I have to keep fiddling with the player set-up… if it could be done from the carousel it would make things MUCH easier!